Ghostly Gentlewomen: Two Centuries of Spectral Stories by the Gentle Sex

by Seon Manley (Editor), Gogo Lewis (Editor)

Twelve ghost stories by the likes of Sarah Orne Jewett, Virginia Woolf, and Eleanor Farjeon are accompanied by introductions tracing the genre's development and its increasing significance

Genres: Fiction, Gothic, Horror

237 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1977

Reviews

[Beverly · Rating 2 out of 5]

Only 3 of these are worth mentioning: 1) "The Queen's Twin" which wasn't even ghostly, but is about a lonely, regal old lady in the Maine woods and is about the need for and power of imagination in life.
2) "Christmas Meeting" which I had read before and is excellent, and 3) "Mr. Tallent's Ghost" which made me laugh out loud. Mr Tallent loves to annoy people by reading for hours from dull books that he has written and the poor narrator comes in for this treatment more than once. The narrator is a barrister who is never named but meets Mr. Tallent's mother after Mr. Tallent's death and is flabbergasted to try to understand how this large, threatening woman (just as off-putting as Mr. Tallent) had ever attracted an admirer,. . ."I looked at her with awesome wonder. She had brought that portent into the world! But how. . . whom had she persuaded?